TASL has secured orders to deliver its Rajak thermal weapon sight cooled to the Indian Army. (Janes/Oishee Majumdar)
The Indian Army has ordered thermal weapon sights from Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) for its different geographical commands to enhance targeting.
Speaking to Janes at the Aero India 2025 show held in Bangalore from 10 to 14 February, TASL officials said that the company delivered 28 Rajak thermal weapon sight cooled (TWC) systems to the Indian Army's Northern Command in 2024, and will deliver more of these systems to the other commands in 2025.
The company has received a repeat order from the Northern Command, and will deliver 14 of these systems in 2025, the officials said.
TASL has also received orders to supply 29 Rajak TWC systems to the Indian Army's Eastern Command, 14 to Central Command, and 72 to Southern Command. The company expects to secure a contract from Western Command by mid-2025, the officials added.
Rajak TWC can be used to engage with aerial targets including low-flying targets. It was particularly developed for integration onto the Indian Army's Igla manportable air defence system (MANPADS), the officials said.
Igla is a family of MANPADS developed by Russia's Konstruktorskoe Byuro Mashinostroeniya (KBM). Igla MANPADS are equipped with a 1.27 kg high-explosive chemical energy fragmentation warhead to eliminate hostile aerial systems.
The TASL officials said Rajak TWC will be used by the Indian Army to improve the operations of its air-defence systems. Rajak TWC has a dual field-of-view. It can detect larger targets such as an aircraft or a helicopter from 12–15 km, and smaller targets such as small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from 3 km.
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